Please help me to better understand stock returns. Thanks for the help! Van Horn

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Please help me to better understand stock returns.

Thanks for the help!

Van Horne Pharmaceuticals' annual stock returns over the previous five years are shown below Year Stock Return 11.8% 80.2% 24.3% 39.8% 58.4% An analyst wants to publish a forecast of next year's stock return and is using this data to guide that guess. What is your best guess for the return in an average, or typical, year? O 11.06% O 10.34% O 10.26% O 10.82% O 10.98% On average, how much has an investment earned per year in Van Horne's stock? In other words, what is the average compound return for Van Hone's stock? O-9.43% O-14.48% O-7.71% 0-689% O-11.81% If an investor put $500 into Van Horne's stock at time period 0, how much would that investment be worth at the end of these five years? O $334.81 O $372.32 $274.38 O $304.66 O $319.75 What is the standard deviation of Van Horne's annual returns over this five-year period? 54.53% 53.04% 53.78% 54.28% 54.78%

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year Return 1 0.118 1.118 2 -0.802 0.198 3 0.243 1.243 4 0.398 1.398 5 0.584 1.584 Arithemetic mean 10.82% Geometric mean -9.43% Sumproduct 304.6565189 Standard Deviation 53.78%

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